Finally it's time to reveal the last 6 players for the Kingston Quake Live Summer Championship at DreamHack Summer 2012. So once again we have a great mix of both experienced and fresh players. The invited players are: stermy, lukelawlz, jeWro, tony, gerppa and finally mousestar.

With us now having the complete list it's soon time for us to do the seeds and groups. Just like last time our great friends at The GD Studio will host a live show with 2GD and Trance to draw the groups. Stay tuned for more info on this!

leszny? the below mentioned q3 oldschooler? and im sure a couple more... no offense to mouse as im sure hes a nice bloke to be around and all, also what i say could be said about a few others, but i'd be personally feel bad taking the opportunity from some higher skilled online player to join the lan circuit (who have a realistic chance to get there in a year or two), -especially considering very few lan opportunitys in a year - just for the fun of it... new blood needed? here they are lining up, but well lets rather give the rare chance to a guy who wont make a single frag through hes 2 maps, will make a clown of himself as well being an embarassment to watch his failing for the viewers and for himself, than disappear to nowhere where he was before.... fuck those who worked hard, lets give the chance to some deadbeat players. and again its not personally against you mouse, this could be said as well about gerpa or draven, youre just the most outstanding example. sry if offended, these are my honest thoughts.

It will be fun to see how many of these "semi" guys will step it up after DH. I always remember feeling invincible after coming home from an event. Imo it is one of the best ways to evolve in game. GL everyone :)

i can confirm fazz' statement. when i attended the eindhoven lan it felt awsome. the thing is u get to know all the players and u talk about general play and some game situations. some players have a completely different view or game understanding towards the game which affects ur thinking and surely improves your understanding. also its an amazing experience sitting behind the players and watching it from their view. the lan improved my ctf play tremendously!

I had many situations where a small crowd would watch a game standing behind a player, and I would ask "why did he do that?", and get feedback from whoever was standing there. Sometimes you just realize what priorities are, or get to know a neat sound trick, etc. Big and small things, all concentrated. After a couple of days of that, your brain is breathing Quake :)

Granted that, "people is people wherever you go", and "if you know how to approach them you'll get the best out of it", this is my experience.

There are two things you have to consider while approaching pro players:

1) The environment where you meet them
2) The stress they are subject to

1) ESL events were at huge convensions, with big crowds, loud stages, flashing lights. After the games people would just disappear, and the interaction was a bit poor. As they were in fairly sized cities, people tended to spread out and, if you did not know somebody in the pro group, you could feel excluded and wonder why you went there in the first place. In general, that's a pretty bad environment for a fan-pro exchange.

Totally on the other side, UGC had a super nice environment, with nice sunny spots outside to sit down and talk during the day breaks, a quiet atmosphere inside with space to crowd around the PCs, all the poeple hosted on a few hotels close to each others, dinners all toghether etc.

To me dreamhack is also fairly comfortable. While the event looks a bit more like a cebit/gamescom, it is still more friendly, as it does not bombard your ears/eyes so much, Quake people stays at one place with not so many randoms wandering around, and the city is smaller. Quakers tend to hang out together at night. So there is time to break the ice and interact.

2) Some pros take tournament very seriously (as it should be). To make the best example, take rapha. He is possibly the nicest, most humble, down to earth guy among the pros, but you will not be able to talk much with him while the tournament is still running. Originally this looked odd to me, but I eventually realized he takes his own space to focus and feel the proper way.

The first day is usually the worst. Lot's of stress on the players, worsen by the usual technical issues here and there, and no matter how you behave there is just too much emotional energy in the air. The tension usually melts as the tournament progresses. Pros drop out of the tournament, take some time to be quiet/sad/raged, and they eventually relax and try to enjoy the rest of the event.

Once you see these things, you can decide how to approach them. Personally, I had very good experiences with the pros. I think one just has to understand them, let them have their space, and be a friendly person.

dunno... imo seeds should be made up by previous (recent) results so this list actually favors me slightly.

Look at other sports for example when a seriously good contender (I'm not saying that this describes me just describes how seeds work) doesn't compete for a while he or she will have a shit seed the next tournament they play in (happens a lot in women tennis btw).

i personally dislikes the tomb raiders games.
i've played(tryed) the 4 and one of the new ones, i don't even remember the name..... both were technically disasters, expecially the 4, with the crazy camera that don't allow you to understand wats going on, filled of bug, with bad control system (in an adventure game!) better don't talk about the enemies and the guns system;
that's why i said about peoples playing it only to see lara's ass.

I know for a fact that trinidy, the old Quake3 legend signed up for this tournament, i have no idea how the admins thought when they didn't invite him, and he has pretty decent skill in Quakelive as well.

Don't wanna flame. My understanding is that when you subscribe, you send previous results/achievement as part of the email. I would assume any aliasing/account issue should be part of that explanation.

I see two scenarios. Either the email was properly written and the admin did a questionable choice, or the information was confusing and the admin are not to blame.

problem is, hotel is booked from 16 to 19. And tickets are available just for 14-16th and 19-21th :)) Still waiting few days, maybe 15th and 20th day will apear.. If no i will need extra 2 days in hotel (one before dh starts and one after dh ends ), hope they will find me some place :))

She's divorced from him for quite some time now, her last album was released last year and her world tour just recently ended. I went to see her around september. Her last album is actually named 'Goodbye lullaby' and is a reference to her ex-husband - the blink182 monkeyface.

I just finished watching X-files - I want to believe, been watching through all of it last couple of months : D. Tbh though, it was a bit hard to watch season 8 and 9 when Mulder's not in it, it's just not as good :\.

this is awesome to see. it's like zotac (in the sense that its got a large variety of players), but way bigger and instead of grid stage you've got group stage with best of 3s instead of bo1s. also, stermy said on stream somewhere that he would be attending dhs but it'd be more of a practice for quakecon. still looking really promising though.

After all his shit talk this year maybe he realised that actually pavel could be a beefy steroid taking alcoholic russian who's only purpose of attending dreamhack is to squash him like a bug. Nah, I'm sure he's just got a new team and they're forcing him to play a french lan instead.

Yes - I think there are gonna be some complete blow outs when some of the big names play the lower seeds, but I think what is gonna be really interesting is whether poni, pavel and especially evil can upset the whole thing. Those three could really turn the whole tourney on its head!

I really would like to, but money is kinda an issue right now. But the real thing is that my current shape is not good enough to even be a match for players like twister, ins, weird etc. I think I could challenge these players but therefore I would need to prac a lot which I can't atm :(. Hopefully they'll have success with the tournament and do a 2nd one and then I'll apply for sure :)

I on the other hand like Zoot's style very much. He's laid back, but when something happens he delivers the information and excitement. Also his casting differs depending on situation. When he casts at home it's all chill, but for example when he covered ctf lan he stepped his game up and it was all serious bussiness (to some extent ofcourse:]).

I wouldn't go as far as sexy but Zoot's style is cool and he knows what he's talking about. I think nvc and Zoot together would be a good combination. It's difficult to pair anyone with 2GD since he's too good (see what i did there:) for others to balance out, so he just takes over (in a nice way) so it ends up being 2GD + someone who nods, agrees and pours him drinks lol.

Fair enough, I love 'em both but I can see why they might not work so well as a combination. I wish Owzo could go with Zoot, but I think he said it's too expensive :<
Does anyone know whether Joe will be there, maybe to cast CS or something?

(I feel like Zoot could work well with most people, whereas Disrepute, although awesome, has a particular style and sense of humour that flows smoothly with some people but not with others. He and vor are good together -- they seem to know each other well, and they can joke around + cover the game nicely at the same time.)

I think disrepute is a great caster, but he will be the first to admit - he hates duel. And as much as he's fully capable of casting duel matches without that sentiment coming across, anyone who's heard his comments about duel while he's casting TDM, will know he's only pretending to be interested in the match while he's casting a duel match and that undermines it a bit. Zoot and nvc on the other hand both play and love duel, so you know their interest and enthusiasm is genuine which helps. The 2 of them are however perhaps a little on the downbeat end of the casting spectrum so perhaps maybe not as good a pairing as I first thought. Owzo and 2GD togaether could be interesting... both quite excitable in very different ways.

Although Dis doesn't like duel very much he's casting of it with Zoot (which we had opportunity to check out a few times now) is also terrific. I'm not sure what's the lvl^ team for DHS (apart from Zoot), but I wouldn't mind if it was Disrepute at all. He just knows this shit well whether he enjoys particular gametype or not:] And yeah the Dis/Vor symbiosis is great and produces one of the best banters I have ever heard:] (and very professional casting).

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Alessandro "stermy" Avallone Breaks my hearth to say it, but I wont be able to attend Dreamhack Summer because it`s at the same time as SOPA and I will be coming back from the US few days before that aswell (Just got my schedule today). This is really unfortunate, because I would have loved to compete at Dreamhack as usual, one of the best tournaments in the World for me and I haven`t missed one in ages. I will be missing all the people and the players there - just make sure to keep supporting this great event that runs QuakeLive and does awesome stuff for esport!

The part I liked most is the simplicity of the map editor. It looks like a starcraft editor, with tiles and predefined structures. This should allow anyone to build maps, relatively quickly, and could definitely lead to interesting developments.

From the short footage I could see, the game looks a mix of UT and tribes, but with no items, fewer weapons, and simple winning conditions (domination/team fragging). As quaker, the first impression is a "dumbed down" fps, but I'd like to try it before really judging.

A big question is what role the developers will have. LoL may have created a case for other to follow.

Choice comments:"Weapon fire is limited by a power bar which allows for five shots in quick succession before the bar must be allowed to recharge, one shot at a time. This instantly reduces the threat of spamming..." "...weapon selection is directly tied to the terrain you are standing on...standing on a wooden environment tile results in mortar-based projectiles complete with splash damage, while planting yourself on metal terrain bestows a more powerful lightning gun...It's an elegant alternative to frantic mouse-wheel scrolling in order to change weapons..."